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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
by | Dec 1, 2017

Do you reckon the reckoning? The Atlantic’s “Bill Clinton: A Reckoning,” Slate’s “It’s Astonishing That It Took So Long for…

by | Nov 27, 2017

Bill Clinton was Harvey Weinstein before being Harvey Weinstein was uncool. This makes the Spectator’s own R. Emmett Tyrrell something…

by | Nov 17, 2017

Can tax cuts exist in the era of the $20 trillion debt? A better query asks: how do spending increases…

by | Nov 17, 2017

You can always tell a Harvard man but you can’t tell him to not grope a sleeping woman. “I couldn’t…

by | Nov 10, 2017

More than a grassy knoll links the recent attack on a politician in Bowling Green with the ancient but recently-rehashed attack…

by | Nov 3, 2017

In the 1990 comedy Quick Change, the robbers escape from the bank by blending in with the released hostages. Donna…

by | Oct 27, 2017

Dudley Dough billed itself as “pizza with purpose.” It turns out that those in the business of purpose cannot long…

by | Oct 20, 2017

New research on Mensa members claims demonstrably higher rates of mental illness among people with high IQs. One finds anecdotal…

by | Oct 13, 2017

“Hey, baby, wanna make a movie?” As pickup lines go, it’s as clichéd as it is creepy — less blunt…

by | Oct 12, 2017

Even critics of Donald Trump’s tax cuts concede that the president likely wins this fight. But victory rarely resembles the…

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